Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Proven Hacks To Hiring a COO MADE EASY!

29 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold walks CEOs through hiring a COO by first inventorying their own strengths, weaknesses, and what drains them. Start by asking if you already have an executive assistant: if you don't, you are one. Match the COO role to your gaps, not to a generic job description.

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And you're going to start feeling guilty and try to pay them more when really you should be paying them based on what they're doing. So there's a whole that's something to really consider and be careful with. So that's question one. Question two is you know what are you really looking for when you're hiring the second in command? It's really about doing an inventory of yourself as the entrepreneur of the CEO. What areas of the business do you really love working in? What areas of the business drain you of energy and do you suck at and separate those two buckets? Okay. What areas of the business are you really really good at? Right and then, and then what are all the things that are bogging you down and taking up your time and make some buckets there. The first thing you want to ask yourself is do you have an executive assistant? Right? If you don't have an executive assistant you are one.